Plasma 5 is awesome...and some help required with build instructions

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:07 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:28 PM, David Edmundson
>> <david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Just setting up on a new machine and thought I'd try following these
>> > instructions exactly, the way a new developer would.
>> >
>> > I got stuck on something I don't know how to solve.
>> >
>> > Under Kubuntu because Qt is compiled with a hardcoded plugindir for some
>> > reason.
>> > This means setting QT_PLUGIN_PATH env variables does nothing, which
>> > means
>> > you'll always be loading any plugins from /usr/ rather than the ones we
>> > just
>> > built.
>> >
>> > How did you get round that? Any ideas?
>> >
>> > David
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>> On Kubuntu, you probably want to enable KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS
>> cmake option.
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> but that will install to /usr
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>> Aleix
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That's the downside, yes.

Aleix